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PUBLIC LAW 88-72-JULY 22, 1963

(2) The cooperating utility or organization shall furnish the site and all equipment, facilities, and services necessary for a complete and operable nuclear powerplant except those furnished by the Commission as part of the nuclear reactor plant. (3) The Commission may enter into a contract with the cooperating utility or organization for the operation of the nuclear reactor plant, including the training of personnel and other relevant matters. Any such contract may be for such period of time as the Commission may determine to be advisable for research and development purposes and for such additional period as the Commission may determine to be necessary in the best interest of the Government. Upon the expiration of such period, the Commission is authorized to offer the nuclear reactor plant for sale to the cooperating utility or organization at a price to reflect appropriate depreciation, but not to include construction costs assignable to research and development; or the Commission may dismantle and remove the reactor plant and its appurtenances. (4) The Commission, without regard to the provisions of section 44 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is author- es Stat. 929. ized to sell to the cooperating utility or organization the steam 42 USC 2064. produced in the nuclear reactor plant. The price of such steam shall be based upon the current or projected cost of steam from conventional sources in the area in which the powerplant is constructed. Such steam may be used by the cooperating utility or organization for the generation of electric energy and any other industrial purpose. (5) There are authorized to be appropriated such additional funds as may be required for the operation of said nuclear powerplant in accordance with any such arrangement. (c) Before the Commission enters into any arrangement or amendment thereto under the authority of subsection (a) of this section, the basis for the arrangement or amendment thereto which the Commission proposes to execute (including the name of the proposed participating party or parties with whom the arrangement is to be made, a general description of the proposed powerplant, the estimated amount of cost to be incurred by the Commission and by the participating parties, and the general features of the proposed arrangement or amendment) shall be submitted to the Joint Committee, and a period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing such forty-five days, there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of adjournment for more than three days): Provided, however, That the Joint Committee, after having received the basis for a proposed arrangement or amendment thereto, may by resolution in writing waive the conditions of, or all or any portion of, such forty-five day period: Provided further, That such arrangement or amendment shall be entered into in accordance with the basis for the arrangement or amendment submitted as provided herein: And provided further, That no basis for arrangement need be resubmitted to the Joint Committee for the sole reason that the estimated amount of the cost to be incurred by the Commission exceeds the estimated cost previously submitted to the Joint Committee by not more than fifteen per centum. SEC. 106. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM W m i W E S T GERMAN AUTHORITIES.—There is hereby authorized to be appro-

priated to the Commission, the sum of $5,500,000, for use in a cooperative program of research and development with any person or persons in connection with Arbeitagemeinshaft-Versuch Reaktor at Juelich, Germany, to be conducted either under the Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Civil Uses of Atomic Energy Between the Govern-

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